The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-11-24

My brother, your trouble is not with the
heart, it is gastric disorder or a rebel
Ion of the liver. You need a physician
more than you do clergyman. 1t is not
sin that blots out your hope of heaven,
and turs your tongue, and makes your
head ache, but swoops upon your soul in
OBJECTIONS and forebodings. The devil is
after you. He has failed to despoil your
character, and he does the next best
thing for him he ruffies your peace of
mind. When he says that you are not
forgiven soul, when he says that you are
not right with God, when he says that
you will never get to heaven, he lies.
You are just as sure of heaven as though
You were there already. But Satan,
finding that he cannot keep you out of
the promised land of Canaan, has de-
termined that the spies shall not bring
YOU any of the Eschol grapes be-
forehand, and that you shall have moth
ing but priclly pear and crab apple. You
are Just as good now under the cloud as
YOU were when you were accustomed to
rise in the morning at 5 o'clock to pray
and sing, ''Hallelujah, It's done!'' My
lIiSihl, 1StNs Ii. OOoCIJlI IL cOllNo, VI
Philadelphia, a translated spirit now,
wrote book entitled ''Man, Moral and
Physical, - in which he shows how differ
ont the same thing may happen to differ
ent people. He says: ''After the great
battle on the NIincio in 1859, between the
French and Sardinians on the one side
and the Austrians on the other, so disas-
trous to the latter, the defeated army re-
treated. followed by the victors. A
description of the march of each army is
given by two correspondents of The Lon
don Times, one of whom travelled with
the successful host, the other with the
defeated. The difference in views and
statements of the saDle place, scenes and
events is remarkable. The former are
said to be marching through beautiful
and luxuriant country during the day,
and at night camping where they are
supplied with an abundance Of the best
provisions and all sorts of rural dainties.
There is nothing of war about the pro-
ceeding except its stimulus and excite
ment. On the side of the poor Austrians
it is Just the reverse. In his letter of the
same date, describing the same places
and a march over the same road, the
writer can scarcely find words to set
forth the suffering, impatience and dis
gust existing around him. What was
pleasant to the former was intolerable to
the latter. What made all this difference?
asks the journalist. One condition only:
The French are victorious; the AustrianS
have been defeated. The contrast may
convey distinctive idea of the extent to
which moral impressions affect the etfi-
cheney of the soldier.
So, my dear brother, the road you are
travelling is the same you have been travel
ing long while, but the difference in
your physical conditions makes it look
different, and therefore the two reports
you have given of yourself are as widely
different as the reports in The London
| Times from the two correspondents.
Edward Payson, sometimes SO far up on
the mount that it seemed as if the cen
tripetal force of earth could no longer
hold him; sometimes, through q physical
disorder, was so far down that it seemed
| rs if the neither world would clutch him.
| Glorious William Cowper was as good as
! good could be, and will be loved in the
, Christian church as long as it sings his
| Filled with Blood" and his hymn begin
| ming: ''0h, for a Closer Walk with Godi''
| and his hymn berinning: ''What Various
| Hindrances we Meet" and his hymn be-
| ginning: .'God Moves in a Mysterious
| Way" Yet so was he overcome of melan-
| choly, or black bile, that it was only
| through the mistake of the cab driver,
who took him to a wrong place, instead
| of the river bank, that he did not commit
suicide.
! Spiritual condition so nightly affected
by tbs physical state, what great oppor-
tunity this gives to the Christian ply
sician, for he can feel at the same time
both the pulse of the body and the pulse
| of the soul, and ne can administer to botl
at once. and if medicine is needed he cal
| give that-an earthly and divine pre-,
scription at the same time--and call or
not only the aporhecary of earth, but th(
pharmacy of heaven. All, that is tbs
kind of doctor l want at my bedside wher
[ get sick, one that cannot only pour out
! the right number of drops, but who cal
! also pray. That is the kind of doctor have
had in nay house when sickness or deatl
came. do not want any of your profit
| gate or atheistic doctors around my loved
ones when the balances of life are tIem
bling. A doctor who has gone through
the medical college and in dissectine
room has traversed the wonders Of the
! human mechanism, and found no Goo
| in any of the labyrinths, is a fool, anC
cannot doctor me or mine. But, oh
the Christian doctorsl What a comfort
they have been in many of our house
holds And they ought to have warn
place in oHr prayers, as well as praisC
on our tongues. Dear old DR.. Skill
man! Ny fathers doctor, my mother
doctor, ia the village home. He car
ried all the condolences of all tn,
families for ten miles around. w
all felt better as soon as we saw hin
enter the house. His face pronounced
beatitude before he said word. He wei
coined all of us children into life, and h
closed the old peoples eyes when the.
entered the last slumber l think / knos
what Christ said to him when the oil
doctor got through lis work. l think h
was greeted with the words! Come il
doctor. was sick and We visited me-!
bless God that the number of Christia
physicians is multiplying. and some of tn
students of the medical colleges are her
today, and | hail you, and l bless you
and l ordain you to the tender, beautiful
heaven descended work of Christia
physician, and when you take you
diploma from the Long Island Medicf
college, to look after the perishable body
I've sure also to get a diploma from til
skies to look after the imperishable sou
Let all Christian physicians unite wit
ministers of the Gospel in persuading goo
people that it is not because God is againS
them that they sometimes feel depressed
bat because of their diseased body. [ SUI
pose David the psalmist, was no mo'
pious when he called on eyerythin
| hUman and angelic, animate and inan
; mate, and from Snowflake to hurricane
to praise God, than when he said: ''Ol
of the depths of he'll have l cried unt
| thee, O. Lord;'' or that jeremiah W;
| ! any better when he wrote his prophoc
thal, when he wrote his Lamentations;